Naming rules

29 July 2008 · 1 comment

I’d seen the headline pass through, but didn’t read the article till Tom Negrino tweeted. … under New Zealand law, names must not “cause offence to a reasonable person”; be “unreasonably long” (more than 100 characters, including spaces); include an official title or military rank; or use punctuation marks, brackets or numerals. [Via : Tom [...]

 

I’d seen the headline pass through, but didn’t read the article till Tom Negrino tweeted.

… under New Zealand law, names must not “cause offence to a reasonable person”; be “unreasonably long” (more than 100 characters, including spaces); include an official title or military rank; or use punctuation marks, brackets or numerals.

[Via : Tom Negrino.]

Domain names? No: names for kids.

I’d suspect that mind-altering substances probably played no small role in this and other naming embarrassments.

The article’s at: Parents must rename girl called Talula Does The Hula From Hawaii – Australasia, World – The Independent.

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Matthew Holloway 29 July 2008 at 15:27 23

I had a friend who worked at DIA and told me about the proposed name of new born: “Notorious Osama Mother F***ing Bin Laden”. Apparently they had it posted on the wall there.

Editor’s note: I’ve edited this comment to add asterisks, as I’m a bit fussy about the language on this site. – Miraz

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